Regis & Kathie Lee with Lauren Chapin of "Father Knows Best" - part 1 of 2!

[@easyrider920]

Always one of my favorite child stars!

[@brendaphillips6379]

I remember watching this wholesome show growing up. I enjoyed watching this sitcom. I am glad that the actress that played Cathy turned her life around thanks to God.

[@amandaathanas4027]

She was the best actress on the show IMHO. She made everything else work and made the show complete. A lot of her lines were pretty profound. It makes me mad that she had to go through these awful things in her real life, before during and after she brought so much joy to others’ lives as Kathy. One of my fav episodes was when she started shining neighbors’ shoes. You cry right along with Kathy. I’m so glad Lauren is still alive and living a long life.

[@jbfonfrias9133]

I'm 66 & grew up watching all these heartwarming & fun shows thinking the characters had the perfect TV & personal lives. How wrong one can be. Dearest Lauren, you still have that sweetness that comes through & I wish you blessings today & always.

[@taylorbrown8589]

JB Fonfrias pool.!ul

[@colarguns]

@@taylorbrown8589 what does that mean?

[@Jan-mt8zp]

Wow. Only God can prevail in her life and has!! Poor thing, what children have to endure????!!!😢Merry Christmas 2023 God Bless everyone and especially my son serving in the US Navy at Iwakuni base in Japan

[@heavenawilson7271]

Never knew that series went off the air.... but they did a few reunion show specials years later....So glad to know that she later went on to become a Christian Faith Believer.

[@ryker6richard]

Lauren is adorable I love her show Father Knows Best I'm watching it now all six seasons

[@antoniograncino3506]

When she smiles she looks just like Kitten

[@retrounderground1]

Ms. Chapin had turned all her negatives into positives at this point, and hopefully has fully recovered and healed from all her misfortune. Just look at that beaming smile and charisma she emitted when reminiscing about her misfortune in this interview that is already over 30 years old.

[@tlmh715]

Watch her KZbin videos in 2022. The aftereffects of her abusive life are evident. She is not well.

[@evelynbeveraggi8724]

Great!! Hi Kathy❤️🤗

[@garywarmee4367]

I purchased this book a hundred years ago and have never forgotten it. It is startling. At one point Lauren became a street prostitute, i believe, which is the last fate anyone could ever imagine from this 1950's 'Kitten'. In jail, a "Father Charles" came to her with helpful advice. As a teenager I was once in jail, arrested for shoplifting god know what and a "Brother Charles" came to me as well. Was it the same person? I have always wondered... As well as being a Father Knows Best fan I am also a Lauren Chapin fan. Given the contents of her book I have always had my eye on her and cared... All the best, Lauren Chapin,

[@garywarmee4367]

Lauren, 8 babies! My!

[@christinehart8018]

So grand to see the The Reege and Katthi L. #foreverlove

[@royal-tea7543]

We can see her younger self ...when she smiles...it's Kathy!

[@marygrant882]

None of us know the trials, challenges or pain of the personal lives of others. Yet another reason never to judge people.

[@alexthrill1386]

R.I.P Regis Philbin

[@mr.djcooncoon8196]

Kitten looks very good here...I remember WPIX Channel 11 in NYC started playing reruns of that great show in 1971 when I was 7yo...WPIX played that show until the mid 80s. I still remember some of those great episodes...

[@kevinhealey6540]

She makes the same expressions as she did as a child in the TV show.

[@lakeerie5857]

You can still see Kathy in her eyes. Sorry for your past Cutest actress in those days

[@judypasqualone5392]

I'm still watching this show that I dvr. My gosh, it's unbelievable what Lauren has been through. She's so strong bless her heart. It's a wonder she didn't lose her mind with all the abuse she endured. 😢

[@desratlinda8639]

( You should get her book )

[@stevematz7354]

She came to our City back in the 70's as a Speaker for a Christian Women's Function that my Mother was a part of. I was a 16mm Film Collector back then and I had numerous FKB Episodes along with other TV Shows from the 50's to 70's. I asked my Mother to take an episode that was mainly concerning Kathy/Kitten titled "Adopted Daughter" where Kathy believes she was adopted because her Mom didn't have any baby photos, etc of her at birth. Long Story Short She not only Autographed the Film Container but wrote me a couple of paragraphs saying that was one of her favorite episodes to do and wishing she had a Copy of it. This was a few years before VHS tapes hit the market. The films that I had were the ones that the Networks sent directly to their TV Affiliate Stations to be broadcast on your TV. I'm Sure now she has all the Episodes on DVD/Bluray and probably digitally remastered so the quality was far better than the old TV Days. I still have the signed Film today. My Mother whp's gone now told me that she could really feel that Lauren had been reborn into a real Christian and had left the Old Lauren Far Behind

[@matthewfarmer6830]

I almost forgot how close the chairs are and that small end table like it's hidden in-between them lol, anyway good to see Lauren Chapin with a book back then. I might have to order it on eBay. This was like 32 years ago.

[@d.g.n9392]

We still see Father knows best on antenna tv in St. Louis. We also own the box set of the dvds 6 seasons

[@RobertoLopezstudyis]

I love this show and it brings lots of memories of the Father knows Best star Lauren Chapin.

[@angelacarleton9575]

I made a choice to use "Cathy" as the name for Lauren which I loved and wished I was had that type of home life. However, mine wasn't so good. I learned a lot from "Father Knows Best Show!"

[@camwilliams2827]

That 80s hair!

[@ronduff4325]

What a funny kid !

[@willcollins3171]

Her eyes still look the same!!

[@midgetgirl5]

This makes me so sad 😭

[@terrybuckalew6874]

i miss regis and kathie lee

[@vikkinicholson2300]

The lady came out of this horrible mess apparently healthy and thank God for that.

[@brianpearis1478]

Remember HOLLYWOOD is nothing like real life.

[@GeminieCricket]

Brian Pearis no,it is real,everything you live is real.

[@tedshaffer5848]

Omg... she lived a horrific life. That poor woman.

[@jacgell9760]

Poor Kathy

[@eileenmaryomalley740]

Poor thing she's just so lovely and honest, pedophiles absolutely ruin babies lives many children do not survive these horrifying sexual attacks .

[@cynthiariley1782]

I wonder if Lauren has any Native American Indian? Hispanic? Maybe some Asian in her? When I used to watch father knows best she looked like she could have those things in her when she was a kid on that show.🤔

[@scotnick59]

Like Lauren, I have problems believing how God can put innocent children through such awful trials

[@isabellamorgan7026]

I know my comment is late but might I add God that sit on the throne doesn't have a thing to do with people's mishaps there are choices and free will there are many of us going threw the trials of life sometimes in different forms because where living in a fallen society ran by the god of this age when beelzebub fell from heaven due to disobedience he couldn't run heaven so he took charge of the air 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places instead of blaming god in heaven we must blame the wickedness that started from the very beginning which first began with genesis during the time of Adam and eve when they opened the door to evil that diluted the bloodline from satan you know when I looked at the show father knows best before I knew this I saw in her a special being that would change something in hurting people it's funny how god in heaven can use what satan try to destroy that's so precious and she is that goes to show us what lucifer mean for evil the father in heaven turn around for our good to work his will in many

[@lucyloo2520]

This is one of the many reasons I am now an atheist.

[@DoubleDogsBFF]

@@isabellamorgan7026 absolutly. God is good and the devil is evil but when evil things happen people blame God. Blame who is really responsible. God is the one loving her and holding her up through everything and Who has brought her through.

[@isabellamorgan7026]

@@DoubleDogsBFF 👏🏻👍🏻🤗🥰Exactly!!!

[@GaryBaker-n7b]

Amen and Amen. Thank you Father God, Thank you Lord Jesus, for sacrificing your Life on the Cross for us.

[@SueProv]

where is part 2

[@Auggies1956]

She's an attractive woman.

[@voraciousreader3341]

Lauren Chapin says she believes she “got” her manic-depressive (bipolar) disorder from her mother’s drinking when she was pregnant with her. What was known even then is that people with certain personality disorders self medicate using alcohol and/or drugs, and that mental illness is 100% heritable, meaning that it genetically runs in families. So Chapin’s mother, and probably her father, had some sort of mental illness she was trying to cope with. If you don’t have the genetic material, you’re not going to ever develop a mental illness. However, this was videotaped a long time ago (I don’t even recognize Kathy Lee Gifford, but then I never watched the show), so it may not have been common knowledge.

[@PatrickFDolan]

PTSD and generalized anxiety disorder, BPD and many more disorders are not genetic.

[@francesodle6069]

She sounds like Kathy and since I know who she is and she had the smile

[@Dr.Pepper001]

She's 76 now.

[@Stewie-th7lt]

Only 44 at the time of this interview.

[@Sky-y5i1b]

Sad about Lauren's childhood, can't grasp @ 2 years old -the sexual abuse started and really didn't have a mom, yet she was able to act - Wow! an outrage this happens to young children still.

[@peggypenny1]

GARRY HIXON PLAYED KITTEN ON FATHER KNOWS BEST IN THE 70s and now

[@MrTruckerf]

ok

[@anniesapp906]

Is this the only show this person worked in??

[@robbieunderwood8349]

Yeah but-------she has a net worth of six million now. So there's a happy ending.

[@petrajuarez6108]

Hope those two Devils that did this to her when to jail ..or they could have be hurting other kid's..

[@debfan74]

this is too hard to watch

[@joannoriol6444]

Tell me how do you lose 8 babies in 2 years? How? How?

[@karenhahn4550]

Joann Oriol miscarriages

[@kwebster62]

"Then eight miscarriages during her five years of marriage “really got me into heavy drugs,” says Lauren. “I don’t remember my mother ever kissing me, and I wanted kids of my own to love. I really felt inadequate as a woman.”"--People.com

[@tryithere]

Bad memory?

[@thomasthompson6378]

Alas, sometimes this happens because the couple cannot agree on who should be responsible for "birth control."

[@susansackrison3139]

Miscarriages how else would that be possible duh!

[@dannywallace1730]

I really like Elinor Donahue best....

[@VideoNOLA]

I would have asked if she minded the topless scene on FKB where her mother was washing her hair in the kitchen.

[@Stewie-th7lt]

"Topless" refers to fully developed bodies. Not the case here; it was an innocent scene.

[@lindamoseley6749]

Knew a neighbor DAVID WERNER who claimed she was his first wife. He also grew up in San Diego & his then wife Nancy said when dating him found out he grew up with RAQUEL WELCH. When his mom said oh look it's Little RAQUEL on the cover of Life magazine. I think there marriage lasted 4 or 5 yrs. Nancy & David's.

[@Capecodham]

Robert Young was abusive to the cast.

[@maryvalentine9090]

Oh my gosh… 80s fashion and hairstyles just make me cringe. Didn’t think much about it at the time but looking back at it, grief, what was going on?! 😆🤣

[@Michelle-pn9xt]

Her hair looks good. Do we need your permission to style our hair?

[@PatrickFDolan]

Today women wear pajamas and flip flops to the store. Pick your poison.

[@johnfd0210]

@@PatrickFDolan I was thinking exactly the same thing! And not just women, but men also. I have wondered, when they wear their pajamas in public, what do they change into when they go home? Maybe they just never change?!

[@robbieunderwood8349]

That hair, that dress.. Yikes! 80s fashion should be erased from history.

[@MTknitter22]

Robbie Underwood But remember a lot of today’s is just as weird - but at the time we never think so!!!

[@Michelle-pn9xt]

Her hair and dress look good. She did not come to the interview to date you.

[@dianecelento4974]

One day people will say. Look at those people in the 2020's. Fashion should be erased from history. And how about those ugly tatoos woman got. Ugh!

[@kosmokritikos9299]

She's lost a lot of weight.